From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/57566 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jesper Harder Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Patch for filesystems that do not support chmod. Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 03:08:01 +0200 Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1085015555 12311 80.91.224.253 (20 May 2004 01:12:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 01:12:35 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M6105@lists.math.uh.edu Thu May 20 03:12:25 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BQc6j-0004yD-00 for ; Thu, 20 May 2004 03:12:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1BQc6F-0004tR-00; Wed, 19 May 2004 20:11:55 -0500 Original-Received: from util2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.23]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1BQc64-0004tL-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 19 May 2004 20:11:44 -0500 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221] ident=postfix) by util2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BQc60-0007d6-Tj for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 19 May 2004 20:11:40 -0500 Original-Received: from pfepc.post.tele.dk (pfepc.post.tele.dk [195.41.46.237]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85A243A0243 for ; Wed, 19 May 2004 20:11:39 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from [195.249.82.186] (0xc3f952ba.esnxr1.ras.tele.dk [195.249.82.186]) by pfepc.post.tele.dk (Postfix) with ESMTP id A804A262828 for ; Thu, 20 May 2004 03:11:37 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Thu, 20 May 2004 01:39:50 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:57566 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:57566 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > Jesper Harder writes: > >> It's not clear to me whether you're saying that `set-file-modes' >> actually throws an error or you think it _might_ throw an error. >> >> But if it does, I'd tend to think it's a bug in XEmacs, which it would >> be bette to fix there instead of in Gnus. > > Hm... I'm not sure. Would it be better for the chmod to fail > silently on some OS-es than letting the user control this explicitly > and be made aware of the issue? As far as I can tell, none of the other places in the Emacs sources where `set-file-modes' is used take any OS specific precautions. Also, does this only happen for XEmacs+cygwin -- what about XEmacs+windows, Emacs+windows, Emacs+cygwin, Emacs+dos etc. If XEmacs+cygwin is the odd man out, I think it would be better to make it consistant with the other ports. -- Jesper Harder